I'm super glad I picked her up. I've actually found that she doesn't need any assistance in the lane, just play her smart and you're fine. I start with an energy battery, and poke the enemy laners quite often. She does need a protector, though, in the late game. Especially against assassins and bursty heroes. What I need to practice is auto-attacking while in between my skills.

Most likely it's a combination of a few things: 1) As soon as the first auto-attack fires, they pop twirling silver which will give another auto immediately after the first. 2) Then, the most likely explanation, is that they know the speed at which to stutter and do not rely on visual cues. Creating a more fluid stutterstep (oxymoron, I know).

There's a huge online community around VG on twitter. :) totally worth a look! If you look through the accts @lfgVainGlory is following there's devs, streamers, and awesome community members.

I think you're looking for the term squishy @longdonkim. Crunchy would imply the hero has some sort hardness to them (otherwise there wouldn't be a crunch). But yes! Celeste looks amazing! Aimed properly and you might be able to snipe the enemy crystal with her Solar Storm!

Your K/D/A ratio does not go into consideration when skill tier is concerned. It's based on if you win or lose, and how your elo compares to your opponents' elo. If your skill tier is lower than your opponents' and you win, you gain a larger amount of elo. But if you lose, you will lose a smaller amount of elo. If your skill tier is higher than your opponents' and you win, you gain a small amount of elo, but if you lose you lose a larger amount. I was able to get from Decent-ish to...

Watching streams on twitch.tv and asking questions to the streamers helps a lot (I'll be on later tonight). You can also look at the General Strategy guides on this site. Here's a good starting point. SEMC recently changed how Karma works, it now mainly affects how much Glory you get at the end of each match. Karma still can effect matchmaking, but to a lesser degree, and the devs look more at your recent behavior to determine if you get kicked over to the deserter queue.

You can also find teammates on twitter using @lfgVainGlory :) (Check my signature for more)

Will the matches be full length (shatter the vain to win) or something close to how ShinKaigen did his tourney (1v1, 2 kills or first turret to win)? Also, I wanted to comment to keep this thread at the top :P

It might have something to do with your internet connection :/ I had my game freeze up pretty bad last night because my internet was most likely pooping out on me.

There's a great tutorial on it on YouTube by ShinKaigen, but the gist of it is that right after the hero's attack is over, instead of waiting for the rest of the attack animation, players tap to move. This speeds up the amount of attacks someone can pull off. Having more attack speed makes stutter stepping more effective. Stutter Stepping isn't going anywhere. While the devs will make it to where it's more consistent across the game, it's a skill based technique and thus something that...